History Fanfic / DireWorm

* InSeriesNickname: Dire calls Armsmaster "Hal-beard". Thanks to her posting helmet cam footage online, the PHO [[NeverLiveItDown quickly adopts it]].

* SignedLanguage: One of Dire's known languages is American Sign Language. When surveying her lair under disguise as being deaf-mute, she's delighted to learn that Danny knows sign language. One of the advantages of sign language for Dire is that it bypasses her pronoun trouble.

** "Give her even the smallest amount of time to work, and materials to work with, [[Franchise/{{Starcraft}} it's like watching a Korean teenager play a sci-fi strategy game. You start constructing more pylons, and the next thing you know he's got siege tanks and the system's telling you there's a nuclear launch detected.]]"

-->''' Mouse Protector '''"Uh. What was that?"

-->''' Mouse Protector '''"She mad?"

* StatusQuoIsGod: Enforced in Dire's original universe. The Superheros keep things the way they are as that's what heroes do. Dire being a VisionaryVillain hates this trope.

* TasteTheRainbow: InUniverse, when called out on how the Direbots make fast friends with the Undersiders (Sigma to Tattletale, Gamma to Grue, Delta to Regent and later Imp and Beta to Bitch, with Dire herself matching Taylor), Dire responds that it was inevitable due to their intentional diverse purposes.

* InSeriesNickname: Dire calls Armsmaster "Hal-beard".

* LateArrivalSpoiler: The '''very start of the story''' spoils the origins of Worm superpowers.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Dire averts this for the most part. Only outright Treason against her results in death. An honest screw up, extenuating circumstances or just being over powered results in Dire asking them to do better. Stupidity and/or lack of skill results in a lecture, docked pay, and/or grudging manual labor.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Dire is a villain in her world as she wants to change the Status Quo where the Status Quo is pretty decent. On Earth Bet the Status Quo sucks and she's already made it a better place just by being there.

''[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/dire-worm-worm-au-oc.300816/ Dire Worm!]]'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic by Andrew "Lost Demiurge" Seiple, crossing over with the author's original fiction, the Teslaverse.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Uber and Leet's final reason to [[spoiler: work for Dire]]. Because giant Mecha are just that awesome.
* BadassBoast: The following proclamation from Dire to Bakuda:

* EasyAmnesia: Averted. [[spoiler: Pre-Dire Dire had to do a lot of surgery to completely erasure her own memories and add in the target brain damage.]]

* MythologyGag:
** In 5.4 Lisa expresses gratitude that the Undersiders don't have to deal with anyone whose power is to choose one of multiple realities to make real. [[spoiler:That's actually Coil's power, not that she knows it yet.]]
** In 5.5 Taylor scoffs at the idea of herself using butterflies. Late in canon, she's forced to do just that.
** Also in 5.5, Alec scoffs at the idea of [[spoiler:doing a HeroicSacrifice]]... which, in canon, he eventually does.

* MythologyGag: In 8.5 [[spoiler:Jack muses that he regrets missing out on Bakuda because she could have given Crawler a "workout". In canon, Crawler was finally killed with a Bakuda bomb.]]

* NoSell: Something about Dire's home reality makes its inhabitants fuzzy to precognition.

* RefugeInAudacity: Dire invented The Click Beep Gun Mk III. A gun whose sole function is to make a click and beep sound while lights begin to glow menacingly
** [[spoiler: Which Dire successfully uses to Bluff Noelle into surrendering. ]]

* HadToBeSharp: The reason Dire is so {{badass}} is because her home reality is filled with opposition that regularly matches if not exceeds Earth Bet's worst. For example, just one of her original foes' powers more-or-less is, to paraphrase a reader ([[AscendedFanon and later acknowledged]] InUniverse), an unholy combination of two already potent Wormverse powers[[labelnote:as in]]Coil's and Dinah's[[/labelnote]] taken UpToEleven.

--> THOSE SPLATTERHOUSE NINE LOSERS-"\\

* BadassCape: Dire has a blood-red one attached to her armour, and she's even DangerouslyGenreSavvy enough to make it quick-release at the slightest tug.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Dire. Like all the time. [[spoiler: Pre-Dire Dire performed surgery on herself to completely erase all memories of her past life just so that no one could attack her family. She knows that she had a family as a scan showed she gave birth at least once.]]
--> "FOOLS! THAT WAS THE DECOY CONSOLE!"
--> "This place has too much going wrong, there's probably several shadowy conspiracies invested in keeping it that way..."
--> A few paragraphs later: "...animal-themed sinister masterminds who are afflicted with chronic backstabbing syndrome."
--> "My cape tore away, as it was meant to do when encountering serious resistance. [[CapeSnag I'd learned my lesson years ago]]."
--> Again: her CurbStompBattle resolution of the [[spoiler: Slaughterhouse Nine]] fight. [[spoiler: She perma-kills [[TotalPartyKill at least six of]] Nine, in one fell swoop.]]
--> Again: "[[YouAreTooLate DIRE DID IT THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES AGO.]]"

* ''The Thin Black Line Between Infernal and Divine'', a Teslaverse novella.

* TheStoic: Beta has very muted behaviour to the point that it's noticeably not-quite-human.

* StylisticSuck: In PRELUDE 8A we get to see someone's horrible FoeYay fanfic about Dire.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Dire wants to practice this. She wants to practice it [[HonorBeforeReason so badly]] that in 7.5 she's reluctant to let it go even when her own life is at stake. That said, she'll make an exception for those [[MoralEventHorizon beyond the line]], like the [[CompleteMonster Slaughterhouse Nine]].

* ThouShaltNotKill: Dire wants to practice this. She wants to practice it [[HonorBeforeReason so badly]] that in 7.5 she's reluctant to let it go even when her own life is at stake. That said, she'll make an exception for those beyond the line, like the Slaughterhouse Nine.

* WhamLine: 8.5. ""Well, they rechristened her Devourer after they convinced her to eat her teammates, but her real name is [[spoiler:Noelle.]]"

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Dire's home dimension seems to be like this. When the MadeOfHam AntiVillain is disgusted by the BlackAndGreyMorality world this is in effect.

* RefugeInAudacity: Dire invented The Click Beep Gun Mk III. A gun whose sole function is to make a click and beek sound while lights begin to glow menacingly

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: This trope is exactly why Dire became an AntiVillain. ClarkesThirdLaw was almost in effect in her universe and humanity was pretty much the same.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Noelle is convinced to release a Devoured Glenn Chambers, because even she can't find a use for a evil PR consultant